MASS WALK-IN AT THE UPPER FLORENTINE AS OVER 500 COMMUNITY MEMBERS ENTER FORESTRY TASMANIA'S EXCLUSION ZONE.
Over 500 people attended a 'Rally for Old Growth' in the Upper Florentine Valley today, to protest against Forestry Tasmania's highly contentious roading operations in the valley. Community members peacefully walked into Forestry Tasmania's exclusion zone and halted roading operations for the day. The community held hands and encircled forestry machinery to raise critical community concerns with the Tasmanian Government's continued support for the logging and roading of old growth and high conservation value forests.
"Today, the Tasmanian community has sent a very clear message to the state and federal governments that the industrial scale destruction of our world-heritage valued forests need to be halted immediately" said Still Wild Still Threatened spokesperson Ula Majewski.
"Forestry Tasmania has smashed through 4km of some our most precious forests over the last week. Today, we have seen the Tasmanian community reclaiming their forests and speaking out against this environmentally criminal act" said Miss Majewski.
"The destruction of the globally recognised old growth forests of the Upper Florentine Valley is an international disgrace and we are calling once again on the Tasmanian and Australian Governments to show some real leadership and put an immediate halt to this devastation" concluded Miss Majewski.
Peaceful actions in the Upper Florentine Valley will continue over coming days and weeks.
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